In "Wrecking Property Rights" (February), Sam Staley does a nice job in showing the dangers of eminent domain when government
overreaches. But the examples he gives pale in comparison to the deliberate and wholesale destruction of ethnic neighborhoods in major cities by federal planners in the period after World War II, under the guise of "urban renewal."
To my mind, the treatment of devils and angels
overreaches and is less convincing; nevertheless, it casts new light, especially on Panurge.
In his eagerness to pillory Lenin, Volkogonov
overreaches, trying to blame Lenin for the excesses of Stalin.